Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if space had arrived soon enough for Mr. Clarke, millions would still be leading starved and stunted lives. Hunger is the result of man's greed and injustice, not of limited resources. If we have rich and poor nations-and rich and poor within nations-what's to stop our children in space from having rich and poor planets? The worst is yet to come...
...Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World...
...seen them in a less egregious form: short, bad complexion, slightly overweight, greasy hair, glasses, copy of Stranger in a Strange Landdiscreetly folded over an otherwise prominent hard-on. At least they have something to talk about: the possibilities of sending Isaac Asimov to Pluto, or the time Mr. Sulu's left ball was shot off by Klingons. It's worse at Dracula conventions: the plastic fangs they wear inhibit conversation, and instead of meeting tall, gaunt, Continental types they find only themselves, or else fat, greasy middle-aged men. The shock of recognition: it's like casting a vampire...
...balancing act without a safety net." Concluded London's conservative Daily Mail: "From this side of the Atlantic, Jimmy Carter's frenzied efforts to revive his personal standing with voters before the next presidential election look more like a narcissistic charade than a national crusade. Mr. Carter's subliminal question to America remains the same: 'How do I look now, folks?' " The weekly Economist of London, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the U.S. in the European press, bemoaned Carter's "amateurism" and warned that the President could not solve the country's problems...
DARWIN AND THE MYSTERIOUS MR. X by Loren Eiseley...